Metallic clothes-pin.



Zia/W04 F. A. HAWK. METALLIC CLOTHES PIN. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 1912.

1,041,785. Patented Oct. 22, 1912.

WITNESSES: IIVI/E/VTOH 1 .5, Hay 1010.

FRANKLIN A. HAWK, OF CENTRAL POINT, OREGON.

METALLIC CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1912.

Application fi1ed February 7, 1912. Serial No. 675,916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN A. HAWK, residing at Central Point, in the county of Jackson and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Metallic Clothes-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of clothes pins bent up from a single strand of stout spring wire, and it has for its obj ect to provide a device of this character of a simple and inexpensive nature, in which the clamping members are especially designed whereby to make the pin certain in its action and easily applicable to lines of various sizes.

With other objects in view, hereinafter apparent, my invention consists of a single strand spring wire clothes pin that embodies the peculiar arrangement of the parts hereinafter described in detail, specifically pointed out in the claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view that shows the pin as in use. Fig. 2 is a cross section of the clothes line and the garment hung thereon, taken on the line 22 on Fig. 1, the pin being shown in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pin. Fig. 4 is a similar view that illustrates the manner in which the clamping ends thereof are spread when applying the pin to the line, and. Fig, 5 is a front elevation of the pin the line of the strand, of which the pin is made, being indicated in dotted lines.

In carrying out my invention, the pin is constructed of a single strand of stout spring wire and the said wire is bent, by being passed over dies or by suitable formers, into the complete form best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

In forming the pin, the strand 1, at one end, the beginning end, is bent upon itself to form a loop member 2, the upper end 20 of which forms a companion portion and is disposed fiatwise against the upper end 30, of a second loop member 3, which opposes the loop member 2 but is relatively so disposed with reference to the said loop member 2 that the opposing members w z of each loop lie in the plane of the openings z of the said loops, the purpose of which will presently appear.

The end 31 of the loop portion 3 is coiled closely around the upper ends 20 and 30 of the loops 2 and 3 to form a stiffened or rigid body 5, from which the two opposing clamping loops 2 and 3 pendently extend and have, as it were, fixed points of connection as indicated by w The two opposing clamps or'loop members, by any suit-able means, during the formation of the pin, are bent to form double clamping portions 2535, they being so shaped that the portion 25 of the member 2 projects through and interlocks with the similar portion 35 on the member 3, with the extreme lower ends 2636 of the said loops spread to provide for easily guidingthe said free ends of the opposing clamping jaws onto the clothes line wire 10. After the end 31 of the loop member 3 is coiled around the upper ends 2030 of the two opposing loops, the end of the strand 1 is bent back over the coil-shaped body 5, as at 27, and the bent over portions 2080 of the strand, are bent back, as at 37 over the said coil shape body.

By reason of forming the pin in the man ner stated, a strong and durable clamping device is provided, having a simple and effective means for facilitating the slipping of the pin onto the line, it being apparent from the drawing that after the opposing clamping members are first spread to slip over the line, they can be further pushed down until the second crossed over portions of the opposing members, see 50, easily spread to receive the line at a point above the said portions 50, it being also clear from the drawing that when this is slipped onto the line, the opposing clamping portions 25 and 35 extend through each other and not only clamp the garment between the opposing clamping loop, but positively interlock the said clamping loops against lateral displacement incident in the pulling action of the garments on their pins during fiap ping when there is a breeze.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is A clothes pin formed of a single piece of spring wire, one part of which is bent to form a clamping loop and then bent back to form an opposing clamping loop, then coiled around the upper ends of the two loops to form a rigid body, the beginning end of the wire and the upper adjacent strands of the two loops being bent hack form a line guide throat for the opposing over the said rigid body, the tWo opposing clamping members.

clamping loops being bent to form cloth FRANKLIN A HAWVK gripping portions, the said cloth gripping L l portions of the two loops interlocking With each other against lateral movement, the free ends of the said loops being spread to Vvitnesses:

J. O. ISAACSON, H. W. LINDSAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

